{"id":577,"date":"2026-06-19T08:38:32","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T08:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/urbaneconomynews.com\/?p=577"},"modified":"2026-06-19T08:38:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T08:38:32","slug":"rivers-of-blood-remembering-enoch-powell-belfast-and-henry-nowak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbaneconomynews.com\/?p=577","title":{"rendered":"Rivers of Blood: Remembering Enoch Powell, Belfast, and Henry Nowak"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-574\" height=\"614\" src=\"https:\/\/urbaneconomynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/4d9d81921a25de461c94da988f9975ed-1024x614.jpg\" width=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/urbaneconomynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/4d9d81921a25de461c94da988f9975ed-1024x614.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/urbaneconomynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/4d9d81921a25de461c94da988f9975ed-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/urbaneconomynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/4d9d81921a25de461c94da988f9975ed-768x461.jpg 768w, https:\/\/urbaneconomynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/4d9d81921a25de461c94da988f9975ed.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>June 16 marked the birthday of\u00a0Enoch Powell,\u00a0the British statesman famous for his Rivers of Blood speech.<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/urbaneconomynews.com\/?p=572\">State of the Nation: What the New Grooming Gang Report Does\u2014and Doesn\u2019t\u2014Say about the Mass Rape of British Girls<\/a><\/p>\n<p>His speech at Birmingham\u00a0earned its colloquial name from this line: \u201cLike the Roman, I seem to see \u2018the River Tiber foaming with much blood.\u2019\u201d This is a reference to the\u00a0<em>Aeneid<\/em>,\u00a0where the hero, Aeneas, consults with the\u00a0Cumaean Sybil,\u00a0asking her what the future holds.<\/p>\n<p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-575\" height=\"444\" src=\"https:\/\/urbaneconomynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/4a9b13416e404fd45d53e237cba8e4e3.jpg\" width=\"318\" srcset=\"https:\/\/urbaneconomynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/4a9b13416e404fd45d53e237cba8e4e3.jpg 318w, https:\/\/urbaneconomynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/4a9b13416e404fd45d53e237cba8e4e3-215x300.jpg 215w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 318px) 100vw, 318px\" \/><\/figure>\n<noscript>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-575\" height=\"444\" src=\"https:\/\/urbaneconomynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/4a9b13416e404fd45d53e237cba8e4e3.jpg\" width=\"318\" srcset=\"https:\/\/urbaneconomynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/4a9b13416e404fd45d53e237cba8e4e3.jpg 318w, https:\/\/urbaneconomynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/4a9b13416e404fd45d53e237cba8e4e3-215x300.jpg 215w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 318px) 100vw, 318px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, isn\u2019t that a bit dramatic?\u201d you might ask. But after witnessing the attempted beheading in Belfast and the unrest that followed, is this really an exaggeration?<\/p>\n<p>Last Tuesday, a Sudanese migrant who had been\u00a0granted asylum attempted to behead a local man in the street with a Stanley knife. If you can stomach it, you can see the graphic footage here.<\/p>\n<p>It seems prescient, then, to take a somber moment to revisit Powell\u2019s warning and notice what has in fact already come to pass so we can craft our future more responsibly.<\/p>\n<p>In his speech, Powell uses vocabulary that to modern sensibilities would seem uncouth (we no longer refer to blacks as Negroes, for example\u2014but it was the\u00a0polite term\u00a0in 1968). Even he recognizes that some\u00a0of the statements of his constituency are impolite, but are also nonetheless genuine, honest, human concerns with a political solution. We all ought to be mature enough to look beyond antiquated language and come to grips with his prediction and what is actually going on today\u2014the replacement of Britons with foreigners and the social turmoil that comes with it.<\/p>\n<p>Powell begins:<\/p>\n<p>The supreme function of statesmanship is to provide against preventable evils. In seeking to do so, it encounters obstacles which are deeply rooted in human nature.<\/p>\n<p>One is that by the very order of things such evils are not demonstrable until they have occurred: at each stage in their onset there is room for doubt and for dispute whether they be real or imaginary. By the same token, they attract little attention in comparison with current troubles, which are both indisputable and pressing: whence the besetting temptation of all politics to concern itself with the immediate present at the expense of the future.<\/p>\n<p>Above all, people are disposed to mistake predicting troubles for causing troubles and even for desiring troubles: \u201cIf only,\u201d they love to think, \u201cif only people wouldn\u2019t talk about it, it probably wouldn\u2019t happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps this habit goes back to the primitive belief that the word and the thing, the name and the object, are identical.<\/p>\n<p>At all events, the discussion of future grave but, with effort now, avoidable evils is the most unpopular and at the same time the most necessary occupation for the politician. Those who knowingly shirk it deserve, and not infrequently receive, the curses of those who come after.<\/p>\n<p>To avoid naming something we\u2019re uncomfortable with is a natural human inclination. Take the bear, for example: Early Germanic hunters believed that speaking the beast\u2019s name would summon one. They used it so infrequently\u00a0that they lost the word,\u00a0and today, the word we use instead, b\u0113re, literally just means \u201cbrown one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We do the same with migrants and crime. If you don\u2019t speak of the crimes immigrants commit, do they exist?<\/p>\n<p>Even worse, God forbid people consider why it is that in incidents of interracial violence, the perpetrator is black and the victim is white 85.5 percent of the time, according to a \u00a0by Rachel Morgan (2015) for the Bureau of Justice Statistics,\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-576\" height=\"661\" src=\"https:\/\/urbaneconomynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/3e324d9c5c97558cd781e725874efe24.jpg\" width=\"643\" srcset=\"https:\/\/urbaneconomynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/3e324d9c5c97558cd781e725874efe24.jpg 643w, https:\/\/urbaneconomynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/3e324d9c5c97558cd781e725874efe24-292x300.jpg 292w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 643px) 100vw, 643px\" \/><\/figure>\n<noscript>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-576\" height=\"661\" src=\"https:\/\/urbaneconomynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/3e324d9c5c97558cd781e725874efe24.jpg\" width=\"643\" srcset=\"https:\/\/urbaneconomynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/3e324d9c5c97558cd781e725874efe24.jpg 643w, https:\/\/urbaneconomynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/3e324d9c5c97558cd781e725874efe24-292x300.jpg 292w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 643px) 100vw, 643px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>Powell continues:<\/p>\n<p>A week or two ago I fell into conversation with a constituent, a middle-aged, quite ordinary working man employed in one of our nationalised industries. After a sentence or two about the weather, he suddenly said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I had the money to go, I wouldn\u2019t stay in this country.\u201d I made some deprecatory reply to the effect that even this government wouldn\u2019t last for ever; but he took no notice, and continued: \u201cI have three children, all of them been through grammar school and two of them married now, with family. I shan\u2019t be satisfied till I have seen them all settled overseas. In this country in 15 or 20 years\u2019 time the black man will have\u00a0the whip hand\u00a0over the white man.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I can already hear the chorus of execration. How dare I say such a horrible thing? How dare I stir up trouble and inflame feelings by repeating such a conversation?<\/p>\n<p>The answer is that I do not have the right not to do so. Here is a decent, ordinary fellow Englishman, who in broad daylight\u00a0in my own town says to me, his Member of Parliament, that his country will not be worth living in for his children.<\/p>\n<p>This is true. Today, Enoch Powell would probably be worried about being imprisoned for incitement of racial hatred. In recent years, the UK has banned people from entering who even mention demographics at all\u2014such as\u00a0the Dutch political commentator\u00a0Eva Vlaardingerbroek.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, although perhaps crudely put, his constituent has been proven right in the sense that anti-white discrimination is prevalent (Jeremy Carl\u2019s\u00a0<em>The Unprotected Class: How Anti-White Racism Is Tearing America Apart\u00a0<\/em>provides an incredible overview of this modern development, but for many, reading headlines is enough.) One need only look at\u00a0South Africa\u00a0to see what waits for us when Europeans become a minority in their own countries.<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, regardless of social propriety, as one of the last decent and responsible statesmen, Powell presses on:<\/p>\n<p>I simply do not have the right to shrug my shoulders and think about something else. What he is saying, thousands and hundreds of thousands are saying and thinking \u2013 not throughout Great Britain, perhaps, but in the areas that are already undergoing the total transformation to which there is no parallel in a thousand years of English history.<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/urbaneconomynews.com\/?p=570\">Britain\u2019s Greatest Betrayal: The Rape Gang Inquiry Report<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 15 or 20 years, on present trends, there will be in this country three and a half million Commonwealth immigrants and their descendants. That is not my figure. That is the official figure given to parliament by the spokesman of the Registrar General\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>The most recent figure from the\u00a0UK Office for National Statistics\u00a0is actually 13.1 million.<\/p>\n<p>There is no comparable official figure for the year 2000, but it must be in the region of five to seven million, approximately one-tenth of the whole population, and approaching that of Greater London. Of course, it will not be evenly distributed from Margate to Aberystwyth\u00a0and from\u00a0Penzance to Aberdeen.\u00a0Whole areas, towns and parts of towns across England will be occupied by sections of the immigrant and immigrant-descended population.<\/p>\n<p>While Greater London is still majority white British as of the last census at 53.8 percent, Manchester\u2019s white British population is only 49 percent, Luton\u2019s is 45.2 percent, Birmingham is 48.6 percent, and Slough, next door to Windsor Castle, is only 36 percent white British.<\/p>\n<p>As time goes on, the proportion of this total who are immigrant descendants, those born in England, who arrived here by exactly the same route as the rest of us, will rapidly increase. Already by 1985 the native-born would constitute the majority. It is this fact which creates the extreme urgency of action now, of just that kind of action which is hardest for politicians to take, action where the difficulties lie in the present but the evils to be prevented or minimised lie several parliaments ahead.<\/p>\n<p>These evils to be prevented or minimized include the aforementioned beheading attempt, or the\u00a0murder of Henry Nowak, for example.<\/p>\n<p>Powell spends some time discussing the specific numbers of legal immigrants entering the country and then describes his solution:<\/p>\n<p>I turn to re-emigration. If all immigration ended tomorrow, the rate of growth of the immigrant and immigrant-descended population would be substantially reduced, but the prospective size of this element in the population would still leave the basic character of the national danger unaffected. This can only be tackled while a considerable proportion of the total still comprises persons who entered this country during the last ten years or so.<\/p>\n<p>Hence the urgency of implementing now the second element of the Conservative Party\u2019s policy: the encouragement of re-emigration.<\/p>\n<p>Only 58 years later are we finally seeing the popularization and development of the idea of Remigration.<\/p>\n<p>Nobody can make an estimate of the numbers which, with generous assistance, would choose either to return to their countries of origin or to go to other countries anxious to receive the manpower and the skills they represent.<\/p>\n<p>Nobody knows, because no such policy has yet been attempted. I can only say that, even immigrants in my own constituency from time to time come to me, asking if I can find them\u00a0assistance to return home. If such a policy were adopted and pursued with the determination which the gravity of the alternative justifies, the resultant outflow could appreciably alter the prospects.<\/p>\n<p>Today, using current polling data, we estimate that roughly half of foreign-born would voluntarily remigrate if they had the resources to do so (and we propose how here.) For example, a <em>Word on the Curb<\/em>\u00a0survey\u00a0found that 66 percent of ethnically non-British aged 16-34 in the UK were considering or actively planning on leaving.<\/p>\n<p>After sharing the concerns of his constituents, Powell describes how the ethnic lobby can sow division within a country and naturally breeds identity politics of all varieties. His example of the Sikhs is especially harrowing after the murder of Henry Nowak.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Sikh communities\u201d campaign to maintain customs inappropriate in Britain\u00a0is much to be regretted. Working in Britain, particularly in the public services, they should be prepared to accept the terms and conditions of their employment. To claim special communal rights (or should one say rites?) leads to a dangerous fragmentation within society. This communalism is a canker; whether practised by one colour or another it is to be strongly condemned.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>All credit to\u00a0John Stonehouse\u00a0for having had the insight to perceive that, and the courage to say it.<\/p>\n<p>For these dangerous and divisive elements the legislation proposed in the Race Relations Bill is the very pabulum they need to flourish. Here is the means of showing that the immigrant communities can organise to consolidate their members, to agitate and campaign against their fellow citizens, and to overawe and dominate the rest with the legal weapons which the ignorant and the ill-informed have provided. As I look ahead, I am filled with foreboding; like the Roman, I seem to see \u201cthe River Tiber foaming with much blood.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>. . . Only resolute and urgent action will avert it even now. Whether there will be the public will to demand and obtain that action, I do not know. All I know is that to see, and not to speak, would be the great betrayal.<\/p>\n<p>Henry\u00a0Nowak,\u00a0Iryna\u00a0Zarutska,\u00a0Cannon Hinnant, the\u00a0Bataclan\u00a0massacre, the\u00a0Nice Truck attack, and\u00a0Christmas market attacks\u2014what more do we have to endure before we are willing to name the bear?<\/p>\n<p>To refuse to do so is indeed a great betrayal and would earn \u201cthe curses of those who come after,\u201d if our posterity will exist at all.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Read the unabridged speech\u00a0here.<\/li>\n<li>Review our\u00a0British Remigration Policy Platform.<\/li>\n<li>The American Repatriation Policy Platform.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n<p><em>This article was originally published on June 16, 2026, on Substack. Cyan Quinn is the director and co-founder of White Papers Policy Institute. She studied political philosophy and biology at Seattle Pacific University. After working in organized labor, she left \u201cthe Left\u201d in 2014 to instead persuade Western nations to exclude themselves from the global \u201crace to the bottom,\u201d reconnect with our natural identity, and protect the unique (and most excellent) civilization we created. She now lives near Washington, D.C. with her family. You can follow White Papers Policy Institute on X,\u00a0Substack, and support their mission\u00a0here.<\/em><\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/urbaneconomynews.com\/?p=560\">Trump\u2019s Iran Deal: Pragmatic Victory, Not Appeasement<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 16 marked the birthday of Enoch Powell, the British statesman famous for his Rivers of Blood speech. 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